“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.”

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Don’t waste your youth growing up.

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

All art is erotic.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it’s the objective.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Government is the people’s business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.

The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.